It would appear as though McCain is just another politician more concerned with loyalty than judgment in his appointments.

Let the games begin.  Obviously, the RNC has ties to this horrific regime.  Democrats, please pay attention and hold steady to your values and convictions.  For whatever reason (and even I've had doubt) the Good Lord has saw fit that Obama be the Democrat nominee.  You've got to believe it was for a reason, as all good things happen for some reason.  If we can garner the courage to stay true to our core, we can prevail and restore this great nation to the forever indoctrines of our Founding Fathers.  Peace, Love and Blessings to all.

McCain wants to campaign together with Obama. Sounds like the only way McCain can get big crowds.

This is significant because it represents the type of people that dominate Washington politics.  Why didn't McCain know this person's ties before appointing him to this post?  It represents the need for change this year.  Clean up the whole process.  It is amazing what people will do for money - represent a brutal dictatorship, no problem if the check is high enough.

McCain just doesn't get it. Obama is not just a candidate, he is a movement.  That is why the feeble pundits have been unable to explain Obama's appeal since he began.  McCain thinks that by chanting Rev. Wright over and over, he will win.  The traditional politics are not going to work this year.  Information is just too easily obtained, and at lightning speed.  That is why basic core values of honesty and consistency will win.  Obama may have made some stumbles, but he has been quick to admit his mistakes and move on.  How refreshing to have someone honest for a change. Even if you don't agree with Obama's positions on issues, you know he will not pander.  Hillary just didn't understand how modern internet information works either.  It was the downfall to her campaign.

So It now becomes clear that McCain's campaign has ties to a totalitarian dictatorship through his campaign lobbyists. I wonder what other ties to his lobbyists have with despicable despots around the world. I guess this is what he means by his "foreign policy experience".
On a larger note, how can anyone trust McCain? His campaign, and his Senate staff is infested and infected with lobbyists; peddling their seedy influences, shaping his foreign and domestic policy. Would a McCain presidency be owned by foreign interests through his pandering lobbyists? Undoubtedly YES!!!. Is that good for America? Emphatically NO!!!
The Democratic option, with Barack Obama, is what is best for America.

I agree--the Bible ,Nostradamus and the Left Behind series all relate how the turbaned wolf in sheeps clothing will take over the United States and then the world.That is Obama.So you must agree with Hagee?He will mesmerize the people and charm them until he is revealed.

Of all the great Americans who we the citizens could have picked to be our President we settled for McCain and Obama. One is an old time warrior who would like nothing better than to start another conflict so he can flex our muscles like Reagan did in Grenada. The other is an empty suit who can talk up a storm but has no clue about the economy or about foreign relations. Shame on us for settling on those two.

Here's to McJunta! By the way, why don't you say something about the Arizona land-grab that he just orchestrated? It was the largest in Arizona history. The recipient: a McJunta lobbyist. McJunta-the maverick that never was.

Armor cracks already....
Not taking one for team but toke the team no where on this one...

G rumpy
O ld
P oliticians

Only a minor scrambled bearings adjustment..nic-nic

McShame is looking for a new something...
LINE!!! Joe..!!! LINE!!!

Doesn't change the fact that McCain himself delegated responsibility to a lobbyist whose company contributed to the oppression of human rights...This has nothing to do with Goodyear and everything to do with McCain. Goodyear's resignation is superfluous, since McCain's obvious lack of judgment in this simple choice is enough reason to vote for a REAL change in Washington.

Where does John McCain find these people? Who lobbies for a tyrannical military regime? Better still... What the heck does a tyrannical military regime need a lobbiest for? Even better still... What kind of mindset does one have to hold in order to lobby for a tyrannical military regime? Do tyrannical military regimes do trade shows? What kind of swag do they give away?

Do Republicans have any idea how revolting they are? They wrap themselves in the flag and tout how pro freedom they are and find fault with anyone who doesn't display the proper trappings of patriotism while at the same time they are able to turn a blind eye to the most inhuman and oppressive regimes as long as there is a good business deal involved.

I can't wait for Obama to be finally be free to turn his full attention to the party that John McCain represents. I predict anouther cyclone in November. It's the one that finally sweeps the Republicans out to sea for a very long time.

god bless and well said Miranda.Yes we can and YES WE WILL.Imagine that a junta with ties to a junta.

Wow, some of you guys are some big, partisan hypocrites. In the "INFORMAL OBAMA ADVISER STEPS ASIDE OVER HAMAS TALKS" blog, many of you said 'Good for him', 'Guilt with assocation is stupid', and 'No Biggie'. Now, when the "Guilt with assocation" card is used on McCain, you guys are suggesting some foul play.

I don't believe of any of this 'guilt with assocation' crap (though Obama's problem with Rev. Wright is slightly different. Just judgement and time), as I'm sure everyone knows someone that has done something you don't agree with.

Mc CAIN talks about Obama and Hamas but fails to talk about himself and the Myanmar Communist Leader. So much for equal standards. He is from the tribe of CAIN.
How can we ever vote for someone called CAIN! It is creepy.

Is McMismanage a flip-flopper or a serial hypocrite?  For someone who wants to rid DC of lobbyist influence he sure has plenty in his inner-circle.  Wouldn't this call McHypocrite's judgment into question?  

Nothing like shining a bright light on the "Straight Talk Express".  There's lots more out there, folks.  John McBush decries lobbyists yet has surrounded himself with, and caters to, special interests willing to move any amount of cash his way.  Special Arizona land deal for a big contributor?  No problemo!  Need campaign support from his buddy GW Bush?  Just flip and flop from being against torture to supporting GW's veto of the CIA anti-torture ammendment.  Formerly against Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy - now he's for those same tax cuts.  Prattle on about cutting the pork - yet has no problem spending $12 Billion a month, indefinitely, on the sinkhole known as Iraq.  Sides with GW on vetoing an increase in G.I. Bill benefits.  McCain needs to change the sign on his bus and Cindy's jet, to the "Pander Express".  The flippin' and floppin' is starting to get painful.  Maybe John's counting on his right-wing evangelical buddy, John Hagee to make it all right with the Lord and "the Republican base".  

The RNC should be ashamed to have any ties to a country that would abuse its citizens and let them die rather than receive help from other countries. Mr. Goodyear knows as well as other Americans that this country has disdain for its citizens and no regard for their lives.  There is no excuse for anyone in either party to be connected to this country in any manner.  This is just not acceptable.  We are a better country and have better citizens that know not to earn money for any reason from this country.

MYanmar has not regard for human life and every American must stand against any party who has any member involved in supporting this country in any manner.

McCain is going to be in real trouble when the general election hits and folks start asking how we can reform Washington when his campaign is staffed by so many lobbyists. These folks are lobbying for big oil, big pharmacy et al literally from the back of the so-called Straight Talk Express. Should we expect the same of a McCain White House?

Well, I sure hope no one in the Republican camp talks to evil people or at least those who are on the evil list for now. Too bad he didn't snuggle up to our trading partner and banker Comunist China. Myanmar is a terrible regime but so is Comunist China. The only diference is that Myanmar is easier to kick around. John McCain will keep up this losing agenda for working in the world. Now, if the guy wanted to trade and make a bundle with Myanmar I'd have a different reaction. Was his lobby to increase selling military equipment to them?

MSNBC needs to do some investigation as to how this individual was picked.  Just as the RNC has tried to connect Hammas to Obama.  

It seems that McSame has some ties with some unsavory characters.  It not a destraction its more like a connection.

Get it done MSMBC, protect the American public from our government having ties with that type of government.  It looks like our involvement with the corrupt government of Panama in the early 80s.

2008 will not be a Goodyear for McCain.

I am sure that McBush and the GOP greatly admire how the Myanmar Military have made their country safe in a dangerous world by restricting gratuitous and frivolous "rights" that only aid and abet the enemy.
Behold the GOP platform!
"War is peace,
Freedom is slavery,
Ignorance is strength"

Defend the Revolution founding Fathers
Vote Obama

Corruption seems to be the constant theme with Politicians.  Is this why McCain's wife is not releasing her taxes to the public?  What other horrors and sinister connections would that Pandora's box reveal?  I am resigned to becoming a veritable Diogenes with my lantern at bay looking for an honest man.  

Can you cay GOP crooks?  These guys are something else, claiming he resigned so he wouldn't be a "distraction".  Too LATE for that buddy.  YOU got CAUGHT, that's why your resigning.  What a joke.

I can't believe that every TIME these guys in politics get CAUGHT with their hands in the cookie jar, ONLY then do they start dishing out the "Code of Ethics" banner to the American People.  They must really think the American People are that stupid to buy this garbage.

GET A GRIP!!!

McCain will need some one to dash some tenderizer on him first... Obama will turn him into minced meat.

McCain reputation here is at stake. How can he pretend challenging Obama when he call him old politics full of lobbyist? I think McCain has to reshuffle his strategy when going against Barack.

Experience is not that all matter here it is how the judgment we can pass on

Just another dictatorship with whom our recent administrations have solid ties. Bush/Cheney with the Saudi's, Pakistan, Egypt, etc...  Now, we find that the RNC is being administered by similarly corrupt lobbyists.  BIG SURPRISE !    signed another Independent for .... Obama.  

Gregory Peek I think that you may be right . . . The Obama Camp may have to watch this

The Goodyear debacle only reinforces my(and presumably
others) recognition of our corrupt government. Is
integrity and statesmanship dead forever???

Meanwhile, McCain tosses about foolish comments about Barack. Campaign and campaigners' bad judgements and behind the scene inconsistancies have long since ceased to surprise but give me a chance to once more state that the ultimate difficulty of the MCCAIN campaign is that it is, beyond the window dressing, one more campaign for an agenda that has failed the country. John McCain will smile and preen for the poor and the worker and intimate his strength. The fact is the Republicans are not compasionate conservatives except to those who already have and want more, their economics have no understanding of the new world we live in, they have sold us down the pike in terms of trade with China. They have bent laws and international agreements to ship work abroad, keep trade high with China even though they send us bad goods and steal our technology. They have no plan for greater coverage of all persons in health care. Privatization is only another code war for giving more choice to those who can afford and letting the poor unofficially have poor health care for their children and elderly. The Republican agenda each election brings up fears of whatever source but continues to sell sell sell arms to unstable nations and dictatorships, and of course, China. John MCCAIN is tied by his tradition, his thinking, his culture to support the status quo of economics, of tax breaks for the already rich, of better private schools for the rich as the cuts keep comming for poorer and poorer public schools. They think of themselves as the deserved ones and leave the huge majority of the nation still waiting for the crumbs or drippins that they offer in trikle-down economy. We are already starving on the trickle-down idea. It simply doesn't work and has not worked since the industrial revolution. The Republican agenda doesn't permit negotiation. It is build on the theme (and Joe Liberman is another proponant) that making the world fear the president and the USA in general is the best way to go. Can one be strong, underestood to have limits before reacting, and be an honest broker, an honest and respectful person or nation. Sure can. But the Republican agenda is to create fear among other nations, create fear in the USA and, from their status quo ideas of governance. John MCCAIN is a nice guy, a very good man, a patriot. His, and and his party's agenda are of another age and another reality.

More today from the NYT and a comment that the MCCAIN campaign intends to 'exploit the youth and inexperience of Obama'. Have they lost their bearings?
By the way. Losing ones bearings refers to direction. It is not the same as losing one's marbles. My opinion is that the Republicans have lost their bearings...a long time ago. Their direction should have focused on the world as it is, not the world as they would like it to be from their images of about 50 years ago.

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